Canada Computers Unionville Sold Open Box Drive as New!!
Have you guys had an experience like this? On Saturday Jan 23rd, I bought a pair of 3TB WD Red at Canada Computers Unionville. For those of you that visit Canada Computers, you know they store their drives inside glass display cases behind the cashiers counter. The sales rep was acting kind of strange by holding onto the drives and never putting them down on the counter but handing it directly to the cashier. Anyway, I get it home and when I go to put it into a NAS enclosure for my client, I notice that the seal is broken and it has a sticker that says Open Box ___% off. What makes it really sketchy is that the sales rep did not mention at all that it was an open box drive. I spin it up and it turns out it has 290 Power On Hours according to the SMART report. Isn't that basically selling a returned product as new? Have you guys seen anything like this before?
I spent $800+ on storage that day, but it's this kind of sketchy behavior that makes me never want to go back to Canada Computers again. Is it really worth doing business this way? What do you guys think?
I spent $800+ on storage that day, but it's this kind of sketchy behavior that makes me never want to go back to Canada Computers again. Is it really worth doing business this way? What do you guys think?